[...] But these are still experimental years for Balsamo: in 1976 he suggest a scattered definition, through signs and matter, of the entire surface [...]

[...] Surfaces made of matter, uniformly black, where fragments of objects or matter, again, emerge. A very interesting moment in Balsamo's work, [...]

Rome, June 1992, Enrico Crispolti 
                      
(from: E. Crispolti, Vincenzo Balsamo, monography, 1992, p. 17, ed G. Corbelli)